{"id":528,"date":"2006-11-24T09:37:25","date_gmt":"2006-11-24T07:37:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/192.168.1.2\/en\/?p=528"},"modified":"2006-11-24T09:37:25","modified_gmt":"2006-11-24T07:37:25","slug":"brett-brune-educar-update-in-the-houston-chronicle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/?p=528","title":{"rendered":"Brett Brune: Educ.ar Update in The Houston Chronicle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today I saw this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chron.com\/disp\/story.mpl\/business\/4356989.html\">very well written article on Educ.ar<\/a>, the Argentine project to provide educational materials and connect schools to the internet that I started in 2000, and was very happy to see that my efforts of 2002 to save Educ.ar from the collapse of the country had been successful. I am very glad that I did all I could to save the project including donating more funds because, even though I understand that food comes before education with the use of the internet, I strongly believe that if Argentina had continue educating the current generation without the internet there would have been no food for many years to come.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nI am also pleased to announce that Educ.ar is very close to placing an order for half a million <a href=\"http:\/\/wiki.laptop.org\/go\/Current_events\">OLPC<\/a> which is going to greatly move Educ.ar forward.  Here\u00b4s a picture of one of the laptops with the Educ.ar portal shown in it.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"DSC00361.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/DSC00361.jpg\" width=\"540\" height=\"380\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Educ.ar has started a pilot program to test the laptops in Argentine schools.<\/p>\n<div id=\"mainphotoarea\"><\/div><div class=\"theme-buttons\"><div class=\"fb-like\" data-href=\"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/?p=528\" data-send=\"false\" data-layout=\"box_count\" data-width=\"71\" data-show-faces=\"false\" data-font=\"arial\" data-locale=\"en_US\"><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today I saw this very well written article on Educ.ar, the Argentine project to provide educational materials and connect schools to the internet that I started in 2000, and was very happy to see that my efforts of 2002 to save Educ.ar from the collapse of the country had been successful. I am very glad [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/528"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=528"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/528\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=528"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=528"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=528"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}